Quotes About Service

what if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful—to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit? What if we just did the kingdom?

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

That's the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.

Who has in his heart always the well-being of others, and is wholly given, in acts, thoughts, and in speech, to the good of others, he alone knows what dharma is.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Your Mercy is my social status.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

There is no authentic evangelization that is not accompanied by action in behalf of the poor.

This is what many Christians are now learning in Latin America. To be followers of Jesus requires that they walk with and be committed to the poor; when they do, they experience an encounter with the Lord who is simultaneously revealed and hidden in the faces of the poor (see Matt. 25:31–46, and the fine commentary in PD, nos. 31–39).

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Thatcher began the privatization of the most precious part of Britain's social commons, the National Health Service, through what her economic advisers called the 'micro-politics of privatization'. The idea was that the government should gradually cut resources for a popular service so as to undermine faith in its capacity to deliver, leading to acceptance of

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol, 1774

Production masters material; service submits to it.

Extraordinary people display calling most evidently…they are extraordinary because their calling comes through so clearly and they are so loyal to it. They serve as exemplars of calling and its strength, and also of keeping faith with its signals.

Life is not about who you are or what you are, it's about how you make a positive difference to the world.

You know what I did after I helped my first person? I shut up and helped a hundred more more.

There is a great love, in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Doing something for yourself gives satisfaction but doing something for others gives meaning.

Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.

Have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

Do something meaningful each day, by helping someone do their best instead of preventing the worst.